Rik Mayall Quotes

Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I try to be available for the fans, but sometimes when I'm with my family, wife, and friends, I try to protect my private life.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

Everyone knows I'm married; I just don't discuss it. Because it's a part of my life that I'd rather keep private... When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.

I don't have the answer to finding the balance because I think, well, maybe successful people don't switch off.

One of the things that I used to make sure I'd do was to always make sure I'd have dinner at home because I needed that disconnect from work. Even when it was crazy, I'd go home at, like, 10 o'clock and have dinner. That way, I had time where I could decompress a little bit and then go back in.

I'm very - I love talking about games, I love talking about movies and TV shows and love what I do at work. But after work, I don't want to talk to anybody. I'm super private. I stay home.

Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.

When it's time to recharge, I don't feel guilty about it.

You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.

Acting is emotionally draining, so I make it a point to not do anything when I am home.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.